Common Cutting | Fly Cutting | Mosaic Cutting

Common Cutting: a simple nesting option to obtain economic Fiber Laser cutting.
Where the quadrilaterals are aligned with the edges along similar axes,
i.e., a single cut along a shared edge between adjacent parts, it’s fast and efficient.

Common line cutting reduces cutting time, increases the life of the cutting head consumable parts, 
simply because the Laser beam moves from one part to the next part without the coherent photon
Laser beam requiring to turn on and off, or constantly piercing.

If a parts nest is simply all straight lines, rectangles, squares, triangles, then the quadrilaterals are
aligned with the edges along similar axes, then the common cutting line approach is the correct option.

An additional benefit of common line fibre laser cutting cutting is that it reduces a cut skeleton frame

Fly Cutting: Works by the software analyzing & grouping vertical, horizontal, angled lines, lines of holes, bespoke shapes etc, then placing the cutting lines into groups,
i.e, the vertical lines, the horizontal lines, the angled lines, the holes, the bespoke shapes, then each group is cut before moving to the next group, during the cutting of a group, the laser beam is rapidly switching the Photon monochromatic Laser Beam on and off as it travels between individual cut lines.

If your components often contain arrays of bespoke complex shapes, cutting lines, then fly cutting, 
also referred to as 'grid cutting' which can drastically reduce cutting time.

Mosaic nesting: Basically is the ‘nesting of nests’ e.g., Merging of several nests into a large nest pattern.

For those that are regularly cutting assemblies of pre-nested components ‘mosaic nesting’ can often provide a ‘quick hit’ in terms of time saving.